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Comment Re:...In (irradiated) Mice. (Score 1) 51

Thanks for replying without reading the three articles I linked. Why didn't you even read the article you linked? That one's about the effects of removing the Y chromosome from mice using CRISPR. Where did bone marrow replacement come from? My guess is you are projecting something personal you're facing, I'm sorry you're going through it. Good luck to you!

Comment Easy Fix - Blood Transfusions (Score 2) 51

There's already been several studies showing putting biological material from young mice into old mice has beneficial effects:

          https://www.science.org/conten...
          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
          https://microbiomejournal.biom...

This is just another example of the phenomenon of replacing degrating parts in a machine with newer parts and it seems to help. Surprising!

Let's get the blood banks providing service and start the human experiments!

Submission + - PC World: Windows 11 still "unnecessary" after 6 months (youtube.com)

UnknowingFool writes: In October 2021, PC World reviewed Windows 11 and labeled it as an "unnecessary replacement" to Windows 10 and did not recommend it for Windows 10 users. PC World noted that it was a "mixed bag of improved features and unnecessary changes." Six months later they reviewed it again. While MS has made improvements, PC World does not feel the improvements warrant a recommendation for Windows 10 users to upgrade.

Submission + - IT Gulag: Russia to Rent Tech-Savvy Prisoners to Corporate IT (krebsonsecurity.com) 1

tsu doh nimh writes: Faced with a brain drain of smart people fleeing the country following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is floating a new strategy to address a worsening shortage of qualified information technology experts: Forcing tech-savvy people within the nation’s prison population to perform low-cost IT work for domestic companies.

Comment Re:The managers fear for themselves (Score 3, Interesting) 289

I have been both a manager and a software lead. I think either breaks down when you have rotten team members, above, below or alongside you. And it's not cut and dry, that managers are/aren't useful/needed.

As a manager, I had our sole sysadmin that flat refused to do the weekly backups (so I did it myself every week), and elsewhere had a QA team member lie and not do the full weekly tests they were assigned, just faked results. And I wasn't allowed to fire or discipline either of them, I had to "guide" them. Gah!! That really sucked. Also, trying to figure out to believe your developers on their time-to-completion estimations .. also sucks. But upper management really needs those to be accurate to allocate funds and coordinate with the rest of the departments.

As a software lead, I have to code review and guide the junior devs, who do some crazy stuff at times. There's one guy we were loaned from another department that management decided to keep, where every single work item (which passed their QA testing) was still broken and had to be fixed by my team. Asked for that person to be removed, but no.

And as a software developer, those requests for time completion estimates are tough to do. I don't know how long it's going to take, I don't know everything I'm going to have to do to make it work yet!! Also tough.

Being in an organization is tough. Nobody has figure out (at least where I've worked) how to make an efficient productive team without some management. One good thing about having management - Managers spend their lives in meetings, if it weren't for them, the developers would be there. This spares the developer from having to deal with the executive level and sit through their boring boring boring long meetings.

Personally, I think being a manager sucks and is terribly boring and frustrating. I don't envy those people. Now, let me type my code in peace!

Comment Microsoft Not First To This Party (Score 1) 71

Explorer++ has had tabs forever:

          https://explorerplusplus.com/

How is this exciting, Microsoft successfully (well, we'll have to see how the next week pans out) copied an existing competitor's tech. Yawn.

Maybe fix the start button to be like windows 10 was!!! That would make me excited!

Comment Re:Can We Please Change How People Are Hired? (Score 1) 192

Of course this should apply to every job! It's incredibly hard to fire bad employees. You have to prove you gave them a fair Performance Improvement Plan, you have to prove you gave everything equally to their high-performing peers. Too many hoops make for change friction which makes for low quality. Do you want your Surgeon to be the one that is being kept around only because they're too hard to fire? How much more responsible would elected politicians be to their country if the voters could fire politicians daily, with a simple majority vote? That's another long-term commitment that needs a temp-hire position!

Comment Can We Please Change How People Are Hired? (Score 1) 192

I'm OK with Apple. They're still verifying the period people did work there. Calling everyone an "associate" helps remove reliance on unreliable past opinions of past work. The real problem is that when companies hire job candidates, they have to start a long-term commitment mostly blind. Would you get engaged without some dating first? Would you commit to a stranger after your siblings chose for you? Companies really need to hire hourly-rate temps at first, followed by a long-term commitment as their work as an employee proves itself. The current method has everyone just gambling. Criminal background checks, debt and bankruptcy checks for general character review, but then temp-hire and allow people to prove themselves. Like dating.

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